# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/laura-ashley
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:00:02.360Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/laura-ashley"
name: "Laura Ashley"
slug: "laura-ashley"
description: "Laura Ashley was a Welsh fashion designer and businesswoman, who founded the eponymous fashion retailer. She originally made furnishing materials in the 1950s, expanding the business into clothing design and manufacture in the 1960s. The Laura Ashley style is characterised by Romantic designs – often with a 19th-century rural feel – and the use of natural fabrics."
tagline: "Welsh designer of textiles, clothing, and home furnishings (1925-1985)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Laura_Ashley_portrait.jpg"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Designers"
  slug: "designers"
profileType:
  name: "Designer"
  slug: "designer"
birthDate: "1925-09-07"
deathDate: "1985-09-17"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           53.4
  momentum:             0
  historical:           21.32071866666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 132
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/lauraashleyjapan/"
    handle:    "lauraashleyjapan"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1139783/"
    handle:    "nm1139783"
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laura Ashley"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Laura Ashley"
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    title: "Лора Ешлі"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2494015"
    title: "Laura Ashley"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump